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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs"Get on with living or get on with dying" Paul Rodden 71 years old

The rows were spaced 38" from each other, and they remained so even after equipment transitioned from 2 rows wide, to 4 rows wide, to 6 rows wide, to ........... well, you get the picture.

When I was a kid I asked Dad, "why do we use 38" rows"?

He said that bascally it was a distance that worked well when they used to farm with horses and mules ... and they just never bothered to change it once they started farming with tractors.

It was a width that animals could walk through without trampling or damaging the crops too much. We had not farmed with draft animals for 45 years ........... and yet the row width had not changed, eventhough the mechanical equipment that we farmed with had changed and grown by a large factor.

We certainly are creatures of habit, aren't we?

And I noticed that at 38" for one, and 4' 8 1/2" for two, that we had bigger horses asses than did the Romans!

I like Romane's style because it's so fluid, but prefer listening to Django. When I'm in the mood to practice and expand my style, I "try" to tackle Djanjo's "Billet Doux" (one of his slowest!) with my 1st, 2nd, and thumb... still haven't made it to the fast break smoothly!